write an essay from a social science perspective about Energy Politics in Canada. Pick any major energy project in Canada and use it as the context for your essay. Examples of projects you may use inc

FINAL ESSAY Energy Politics in Canada Topics of today’ class • The final essay • Topic • How to start? • How to breakdown the essay • What are the steps you need to follow? • What is expected? Topic • Energy Politics in Canada • You are asked to write an essay from social science perspectives What does it mean? • What is social science perspectives? • You are asked to understand the topic as a social scientist ( Anthropologist, environmentalist, ecologically conc erned scientist) • It means that you have to incorporate ideas and con cepts using sources from social sciences (anthropology) in ana lyzing the issue • In order to do so, you must do a good literature review, and a clear and critical perspectives from other scholars. • Articles and books written by social scientists Step 1 • Pick any major energy project in Canada and use it as the context for your essay. • Example: • Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Pipeline Project. • You need to conduct a good research about the project From where you get information? • When retrieving information about your chosen energy project you are allowed to collect information from non-academic sources su ch as: online blogs, new paper articles, and other electronic sources. • You can use documents published in various governmental age ncies’ web pages in Canada. • Provincial governmental organization • Or any other agencies The context of the essay • Get key ideas about the project from various stakeholders • What is all about the project? • goals, objectives, plan, • Governmental agency, political parties, oil industry, market, locals, activists, media, environmentalist groups, engineers, media …. • Provide a general understanding of a project by incorporating various ideas so that your readers can get good sense of the proj ect • You can write about a page and half as a brief description of the project • This is your context of the paper Step 2 • Based on your discussion, now you have to pick two areas that you want to discuss in your essay. • It is your choice and it must be guided by thesis statement • Why and how you are going to deal with these two issues (can be for or against the project) Step three • For example: • You picked two ideas that you want to discuss in your essay: • 1. economic growth vs. sustainable energy. • Now you have to tell: • Who are for economic growth and who are for sustainable energy? • Provide data, arguments, and perspectives • You can discuss about the polices and politics here…. • You must incorporate ideas from scholarly sources • AND I WANT TO SEE YOUR PRESENCE AS A SCHOLAR • What you have learned from this class? Now how you going to deal this issues in your essay • Now you have to pic at least three ideas and concepts from your course readings you want to apply to see the debate more clearly. • Based on your perspectives, you can pick any three ideas • In this section you have to make clear arguments • For example, you have picked wicked problem as an idea • You have to conceptualize the concept first by inco rporating ideas from core source. • Then you can say why it is a wicked problem. Conclusion • It is expected that you will address the issue from professional, ethical and ecological stand points. • I want to see your engagement in the discussion and at the end you have to take a position. • Write a good conclusion. Sources • You must utilize a minimum of five scholarly academic sources to complete this essay • You can use your course reading and text book • Articles and book published by social scientists and environmentalist • Peer reviewed articles • You can use google scholar using our library • Jstor Formation structure • Essay structure and content • 1. Paper written in proper essay style • 2. Formatting instructions followed • 3. Clarity of statement of topic • 4. Clarity of thesis statement • 5. Clearly presented supported for argument in paper • 6. Evidence of understanding of sources used • 7. Proper use of referencing, including use of proper academic sources • 8. Paper shows evidence of creativity and originality Structure • Word court • Name and student number • Title • APA style • Bibliography